Debugging
Debugging © Browserling · Browserling Comics · CC BY-NC 4.0
Why it lands
A turn on the idiom "a needle in a haystack": the debugging job is not to find one needle but to remove all of them, and the developer has already torn half his hair out. The caption is the whole joke; the painting is the punchline.
Transcript
- Debugging: Removing the needles from the haystack.
Credits
- Original
- Debugging — Browserling, Browserling Comics
- Image file
- comic.browserling.com/debugging.png
- License
- CC BY-NC 4.0
The English page shows the original image unmodified. The Japanese page shows an adaptation by wtfe²: the lettering was erased from the art and replaced with a Japanese translation. The adaptation is shared under the same license as the original.